"I wasn't talking about you, I just wanted to raise a issue," the hovercar citizen said gently, "blah blah blah..."
Li Qiusheng replied using the standard script in the manual.
The familiar words made Xia Chuhe frown, and he covered his earpiece and asked softly, "Hovercars again?"
Li Qiusheng nodded, reassured the citizen, and was about to hang up when the gentle voice in the earpiece suddenly turned into a roar: "Don't try to fob me off with that! You made things right yesterday, but nobody's done anything about it today! What's going on?! Don't you care about the citizens' problems?!"
The company-provided headphones have excellent sound leakage prevention.
Xia Chuhe could only see that Li Qiusheng's expression was completely dumbfounded, but he couldn't hear what the other person was saying.
The hovercar continued to roar: "You're incompetent! I need someone to handle this! Transfer me to another line! I need your employee number!"
Liu'er.
This was Li Qiusheng's last phone call before his shift ended; Liu'er had already finished get off work.
"I'm sorry, I've already gone home to charge my phone. Please call me again tomorrow morning at nine o'clock, okay?"
"Charging? She has the nerve to charge her phone? My problem isn't even solved yet, how can she go home?!"
Li Qiusheng's forehead twitched: "Please use polite language."
The hovercar citizen grew increasingly angry, hurling insults on the phone, a stark contrast to his initial mild demeanor.
Annoyed, Li Qiusheng slapped off his headphones and threw them on the table: "Off work!"
...
After working for two days, the two had enough money left to repay the company.
If I work one more day tomorrow and earn enough for the temporary allowance for the day after tomorrow, I won't be tied to my workstation anymore!
While they still had energy, the two continued to wander around the city.
Along the way, we came across several mechanical vehicles with eyes, ears, mouths, and noses gathered together chatting and boasting. Judging from their appearance, they looked like road rollers, bulldozers, excavators, etc.
Among them, the excavator is particularly proud, seemingly earning the highest salary among all the vehicles.
Li Qiusheng found it amusing; a few tools, and they were actually comparing themselves to people.
Seeing her laugh, the excavator gave her a disdainful look: "You're just a mortal, what position do you hold, daring to laugh at me?!"
Li Qiusheng teased it: "I'm a freelancer, I spend my days idly tending to flowers and plants, it's very comfortable."
"How much can you earn as a freelancer? I make 1,000 a day!" The excavator's bucket was raised high, like a puppy's tail held high when it's happy.
Li Qiusheng grinned mischievously: "Oh, you're asking me? My daily income... is less than 100,000!"
The excavator silently lowered its bucket. A thousand and a hundred thousand—the difference between two zeros is incomparable.
A bulldozer rolled lightly over the excavator and said, "Come on, buddy, let's go over there and talk!"
...
The unpleasantness from being yelled at and insulted was completely released at this moment, and Li Qiusheng snorted with a refreshed feeling.
Xia Chuhe found it amusing, and his annoyance dissipated.
Happy times always seem to pass too quickly.
When Li Qiusheng received his wages for today, he couldn't smile.
Only 70 was credited to my account today. The text message that arrived along with the credit coins indicated that Li Qiusheng had been complained about, and the citizen complaint was found to be true, so 30 was deducted.
Li Qiusheng, looking dejected and crestfallen, followed Xia Chuhe back to the dormitory: "Boss, you should save up enough money and leave tomorrow. I'll continue working..."
Halfway through her sentence, she had a brilliant idea: "Boss! Me! Me! I'll take care of you!"
Without any deductions, each person has 30 credits left per day after deducting essential living expenses.
The daily stay fee for a single person is also 30.
The two could have simply had one of them stay to work and used the money they saved to pay the other person's temporary accommodation fee.
However, the person without a job has nowhere to rest and can only keep running around investigating clues.
Xia Chuhe did not refuse Li Qiusheng's suggestion. If only one of them could go to investigate, then it would indeed be more suitable for her to go, but...
"Can you do it? One complaint and you've worked for nothing all day."
Li Qiusheng, with a righteous and awe-inspiring spirit, displayed the determination of a hero who would never return, even in the face of adversity: "I can do it! So what if I get scolded? I can endure it!"
Sometimes, you can't just say things carelessly.
On his third day at work, the first phone call Li Qiusheng received that morning was—
"Why don't you just die? Why don't you and your whole family die? Why aren't you saying anything? Just die! Go and be destroyed!"
"Beep beep beep beep beep—"
I got scolded.
The other party hung up the phone after hurling insults.
Not only can they not talk back, they don't even have the chance to subtly retort.
Li Qiusheng looked at Xia Chuhe with a pitiful expression, tears welling up in his eyes.
Xia Chuhe stared thoughtfully at the willow tree sprouting on Liu'er's desk.
The dead tree has sprouted.
She might not be able to distinguish between different plant species, but she would never mistake a living tree for a dead one.
There's something wrong with this piece of wood.
Perhaps the problem isn't just with the wood.
The previous rules-based areas are all completely new scenes and settings.
But the Forgotten City is more like a restoration of the past.
The city is a real place that once existed, but... what about the people? What about the events?
Historically, did a citizen interface coordinator with a specific employee number truly exist? Did a citizen genuinely care about the parking of hovercars? Did countless robots call the citizen interface hotline?
...
Liu'er arrived late today and started complaining to Xia Chuhe as soon as she sat down: "What a bad day! I found a communicator on my way to work. It looked really expensive, so I kindly called a police officer, but he was super slow and almost made me late..."
"Hey, the money tree has sprouted! Maybe it will bloom this afternoon, and we can take it to exchange for money tonight!" Liu'er glanced at the sprouting willow tree and quickly changed the subject.
Xia Chuhe seized the opportunity: "Can you handle such valuable items that could be exchanged for a big villa all by yourself? Do you need my help?"
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